In the transition from fossil -based energy to clean energy, solar energy plays a very important role, while the number of studies to achieve solar energy more efficiently is increasing day by day. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, which has signed a new one of these studies, mimically mimic the wings of the butterflies to reveal a structure that can collect sunlight twice as efficiently.
Can collect light successfully from different angles
Researchers who examine the wing structure of the rose butterfly, which is unique to Southeast Asia, observed that there are small holes placed at randomly on the black wings in order to keep the sunlight better. The researchers who discovered that the small holes that make the light be distributed on the wing and absorbed by the wing collect sunlight in the most stable way in all light spectra and different angles began to test the wing structure of the rose butterfly on the solar panel.
In order to create a structure similar to the butterfly wing, the team formed the three -dimensional model of the nano structure on the wings and then used extremely thin (similar) hydrogenous amorphous silicone sheets and placed small holes on the wing on the plates. With the resulting solar panel, the researchers, who form a twice as much more efficient panel than today’s solar panels, can produce only a few hours of power due to the locations of the existing solar panels and the solar rays, and that the panel full of holes was able to produce power for a long time.
Radwanul Hasan Siddique, the leader of the research, added that the construction of the new solar panel is also extremely easy. According to Siddique’s statement, it takes only 5-10 minutes to create a nano structure in a six-inch silicone. Siddiique, the California Institute of Technology, will leave the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology after this work, but the rest of the team will continue to work to provide solar panels with holes to industrial use. Apparently, nature will continue to direct futurism.
According to the information contained in Hardware News, the project of the team that receives financial resources from the German Research Foundation to work on solar cells and LEDs may accelerate the abandonment of solar fossil fuels if the project is implemented.
